Business Green

JUNE 30, 2020

Prime Minister to reaffirm tree-planting plans as part of £5bn 'New Deal' style recovery package, but green campaigners fear 'false start' as key funding announcements still yet to be confirmed. Unfortunately, the PM seems to have got off to false start.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

Today the influential Energy Transition Commission (ETC) published a wide-ranging new report under the title Financing the Transition: How to make the money flow for a net-zero economy. Moreover, this price tag is for capital investments, not costs. Again, it sounds like a lot but it is equivalent to around 1.3

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

“Greenwashing involves companies either misleading consumers about the green credentials of a product or service, or misleading consumers about the environmental performance of a company as a whole.” – Dr. Aoife Brophy , Research Lecturer at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford.

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2021

In fact, the reverse is true, and often by a large margin: globally, government subsidies for fossil fuels are tagged at more than $440bn per year, according to IEA (International Energy Agency) estimates. It may seem paradoxical, but renewables only see a fractional 20 per cent of the subsidies paid to the energy sector.

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Business Green

MAY 29, 2022

Aside from the clear moral imperative underpinning climate action, these are the two key questions which guide almost all green policymaking in the UK, whether in government, finance, or business. per cent GDP boost is on offer to the UK as a result of stimulating investment in green industries and infrastructure.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 18, 2019

and Brazil, much of it backed by C&I power purchase agreements thanks to Enel Green Power's early and successful push into the corporate renewables market. In September the company closed finance on 125 megawatts of projects spread across California, Pennsylvania, New Mexico and Kansas. gigawatts of renewable power.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

But many green solutions and technologies remain out of reach from smaller firms, especially at a time when the rising cost of goods, rent, energy, and staffing threaten to a significant bite out of smaller businesses' revenues and profits. Key to this will be access to resources and finance to help small business action.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

It promises good green jobs, regional development, ultimately lower energy bills and enhanced energy security, and improved health and well-being, even before you get to the whole habitable biosphere stuff. When you unpack their manifesto the paucity of it is genuinely staggering.

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2021

The UK has embarked on what the government describes as a green industrial revolution, with whole industries, the entire jobs market, every inch of infrastructure and even the banal, minutiae details of our daily lives on the cusp of major transformation. Or is it a billion pound question? Or will it require a cost at all?

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Business Green

AUGUST 25, 2021

Meanwhile, the government's abrupt decision earlier this year to prematurely axe its flagship home retrofit grant scheme, the Green Homes Grant, underscored how the sector's days of being buffeted by shock policy decisions may be far from over. But at the same time, the industry still faces major challenges.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2023

It added that programs will be able to tag both existing and new carbon credits with the CCP label, provided that it has also approved the category. It explained that programs which have been assessed as CCP-Eligible will be responsible for ensuring that carbon credits meet the high integrity criteria before tagging them with the CCP label.

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2022

BusinessGreen rounds up all the reaction from the green economy to the Chancellor Rishi Sunak's mini-budget. The Chancellor should also have committed to an ambitious nationwide energy efficiency programme to deliver warm homes, lower bills and thousands of green jobs - a retrofit revolution fit for the 21 Century.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2021

Given the huge pressures the UK has faced from Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic, and the swathes of critical climate policy that has been promised and repeatedly delayed by the government, it will come as little surprise to many in the green economy that the lack of climate policy progress is a major cause for concern for the CCC.

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Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2021

Green group claims only fraction of Budget 2021 has been directed towards climate change mitigation policies, as pressure ramps up Chancellor Rishi Sunak to step up support for net zero transition. The analysis suggests Budget spending on green measures was equivalent to 0.01

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ThinkGeoEnergy

DECEMBER 18, 2023

There is wide recognition that this will take monumental effort in terms of technology advancement, financing, and policy. This is inherently wasteful and it comes with a price tag of emissions. As one example, we are working on developing green hydrogen or green ammonia using geothermal-powered electrolyzers.

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Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2021

Green group claims only fraction of Budget 2021 has been directed towards climate change mitigation policies. But a government spokesperson slammed WWF's claims as "misleading", pointing to the £12bn funding behind the Prime Minister's Ten Point Plan for a Green Industial Revolution published last year.

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2023

New projects with big price tags are looking for long-duration energy storage solutions In the summer of 2021, a flurry of R&D money was flying into new long-duration energy storage technologies. The clean hydrogen will then power a fuel cell to create on-demand energy.

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 17, 2023

The majority of Denbury’s revenue comes from EOR, which involves injecting CO2 into the ground in order to extend the life of oil fields, and ~60% of the price tag likely covered the value of Denbury’s oil production rather than the CCS infrastructure. See more about the role of green banks from CTVC here.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2020

To describe autumn 2020 as a busy period for green economy policy in the UK would be an understatement. However, today's publication of the Energy White Paper marks a significant milestone in the UK's net zero transition, representing the first detailed policy framework to be delivered in support of Johnson's new 'green revolution'.

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2021

Accordingly, more than half called for increased financial help from the government to help bring green cars within their price range. Only one model - the Tesla Model S, with a price tag of £73,990 - offers a range of 375 miles and upwards on a single charge.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

Director-general of the clean energy agency offers his thoughts on the energy crisis, green and blue hydrogen, and why renewables must be the priority in the 2020s. On green and blue hydrogen. BusinessGreen was there to listen in on what the self-styled 'good guys' of the global energy transition are currently thinking.

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Renewable energy projects are particularly sensitive to interest rates, especially since most require debt to finance a high upfront sticker price for the tech. Renewable assets have a duration of ~30 years and are contracted for the first 10-15 years, but financed with debt at an average maturity of 7 years.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 7, 2023

Since then, the price tag for the project has since more than doubled and the Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office had to step in to provide additional financing. The thinking is that smaller projects create financing, siting, manufacturing, and safety benefits compared to traditional reactors. Subscribe Now

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Mearth

JANUARY 30, 2021

From entry-degree, finances-minded items, to a number of the most innovative and have-wealthy models obtainable. In either case, you will need to fill out the reside stream description, perhaps choose a category for your stream, and add some tags. Fall sees the green flip to a golden hue which contrasts with the bright blue of the sky.

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